Five Ways to Make Architecture Political

An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice

Prof Albena Yaneva (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-08971-6 (ISBN)

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Five Ways to Make Architecture Political presents an innovative pragmatist agenda that will inspire new thinking about the politics of design and architectural practice. Moving beyond conventional conversations about design and politics, the book shows how recent developments in political philosophy can transform our understanding of the role of the architect. It asks: how, when, and under what circumstances can design practice generate political relations? How can architectural design become more ‘political’?

Five central chapters, which can be read alone or in sequence, explore the answers to these questions. Powerfully pragmatic in approach, each presents one of the ‘five ways to make architecture political’, and each is illustrated by case studies from a range of contemporary situations around the world. We see how politics happens in architectural practice, learn how different design technologies have political effects, and follow how architects reach different publics, trigger reactions and affect different communities worldwide.

Combining an accessible introduction to contemporary political concepts with a practical approach for a more political kind of practice, this book will stimulate debate among students and theorists alike, and inspire action in established and start-up practices.

Albena Yaneva is Professor in Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, UK and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture, USA. She is the author of Mapping Controversies in Architecture (2012), The Making of a Building: A Pragmatist Approach to Architecture (2009), and Made by the Office for Metropolitan Design: An Ethnography of Design (2009).

Introduction

1. Architecture and Politics

2. How to Study Ecology of Practice?

3. Political Objects (The first way of becoming political)

4. Experiments in Practice (The second way of becoming political)

5. The Multiple Natures of a City (The third way of becoming political)

6. Sites of Politics (The fourth way of becoming political)

7. Urban Publics (The fifth way of becoming political)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2018
Zusatzinfo	60 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 232 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-08971-0 / 1350089710
ISBN-13	978-1-350-08971-6 / 9781350089716
Zustand	Neuware